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I received a request from a real estate agency in Russia: they are looking for completed homes/townhomes in the price range up to $300,000 in Florida. Usually they put together a small group (up to 10 buyers) from Russia and organize a home buying trip for the group. Most of them are cash buyers,...

Russian Realtors certified in St. Petersburg, Russia to co-broke in marketing and selling properties from ANY country to Russian buyers   How to choose a Realtor/Co-Broker in Russia? There are no Realtor licensing bodies in Russia, no laws that require Russian Realtors to be licensed, and no spec...

The most popular Russian real estate portal of foreign properties for sale for Russian buyers publishes statistics of countries that Russian visitors of the portal search for monthly.  Here's the March 2009 stats from Prian.ru (based on 800,000+  inquiries): The top ten countries that Russian Buy...

The updated edition of e-book "Selling to Russians" is available for Realtors free of charge at http://www.english-and-russian.com/selling-to-russians.html Here's the Table of Content: 1. How to increase sales in the slow real estate market 2. How to present your foreign properties to Russian Buy...

Updated! Selling to Russians Selling to Russians is the way to increase sales in the slow real estate market Go fishing where the fish is: sell properties to Russian Buyers with cash to invest   "Gov. Charlie Crist pitches Florida real estate to Russians" ---St. Petersburg Times   "From Russia Wi...

 Updated! Top 10 Russian Real Estate PORTALS where buyers from Russia search for ANY country in the world andagents/owners from ANY country post property listings  There are many international real estate portals in English on the Internet, but if you want to sell your properties in ANY country o...

There is some dark side of being the first on Google - your articles are being stolen all the time! Very popular with Internet thieves is A. Riggs' interview with me "Selling to Russians" http://www.globaledge.co.uk/news/selling-to-russians-10-tips-for-real-es-25422 and also my article "Russian B...

 Updated!(scroll to P.S. below) Russian Buyers of international real estate: who, what, where? Russian analytical portal Real Estate Indicators irn.ru has made an attempt to create a profile of Russian Buyers of properties abroad in November 2008. Here is the scoop: "Headlines speak for themselve...

 Your Property Website in Russian Internet Starting your property website in Russian Internet is an inexpensive and fast way to get your foreign property in front of the eyes of Russian Buyers and real estate Brokers/Agents. Here is an example of a property website in Russian Internet that we've ...

 Updated! Russian Internet Having been asked recently "Is there Internet in Russia?", I'd like to put together this basic info on RuNet = Russian Internet. The Russian language is the sixth most widely spoken language in the world, following Mandarin, English, Hindi/Urdu, Arabic and Spanish. It i...